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2025-03-19 Government Corruption

Federal judge has ruled that actions taken by Musk and DOGE to close USAID were unconstitutional

I think we all knew something like this was gonna happen.

Hizzoner Judge Theodore Chuang, whose parents immigrated from Taiwan, was appointed by President Obama in 2014. He could do none else.

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A federal judge has ruled that actions taken by Musk and DOGE to close USAID were unconstitutional and has ordered DOGE officials to reinstate basically all of USAID's functionality. pic.twitter.com/ny8t96mVmc
— Clash Report (@clashreport) March 18, 2025

LOL. The entire judiciary has apparently decided to light itself on fire while John Roberts stands by mumbling to himself about how he’s protecting the sacred legal guild from Trump tweets. https://t.co/psIlV4sclK
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 18, 2025

Posted by Fred 2025-03-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11152 views ] Top

#1 Wikipedia on the Judge

Posted by 3dc 2025-03-19 01:46|| 2025-03-19 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2
Did not need to read any further once I saw

Appointed by: Barack Obama

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-19 06:30|| 2025-03-19 06:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Musk is merely an advisor. The actions are taken by officers of the United States. The judge is operating on misinformation spread by the Party Media(tm).

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-19 06:56|| 2025-03-19 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The judge is ~~operating on misinformation spread by the Party Media(tm)~~ insane. FIFY

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-03-19 07:01|| 2025-03-19 07:01|| Front Page Top

#5 It is long past time for Congress to abolish whatever Federal court Chuang serves on, and ensure he never again holds any federal office, except perhaps shoveling manure out of the stables for the horses at Arlington National Cemetery. Note I am not advocating impeachment but abolish of his tainted federal court. Unfortunately, this action by Congress would require Congress to take action.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-03-19 07:06|| 2025-03-19 07:06|| Front Page Top

#6 El Salvador's Bukele weighs in after Trump's call to impeach judge: 'The U.S. is facing a judicial coup'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-19 09:07|| 2025-03-19 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Judge blocks Trump's EPA from terminating $14 billion in 'green bank' grants after accusations of fraud

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-19 09:14|| 2025-03-19 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Trump's plan to boot 4,200 transgender troops from the military and eradicate DEI is dealt huge blow

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-19 09:46|| 2025-03-19 09:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Judge ruled the shutdown as "unconstitutional" because USAID was created by the legislative branch and the executive branch therefore can't abort it (side note: first "pro-life" ruling by an Obama judge ever).
Unfortunately for the judge's argument, UDAID was created by JFK via executive order, not Congress.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-19 10:09|| 2025-03-19 10:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I can understand Chief Justice Roberts' reluctance to dirty his hands with this flaming dog turd. Short of giving a civics lesson on the 3 branches of government, maybe he could ask his side to tone it down a bit. Otherwise, the Supremes are going to have a busy season cleaning up the mess.

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-19 10:24|| 2025-03-19 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I sincerely hope this was anticipated and that there is a plan to deal with it. Right now it's starting to look like they'll just tie Trump's hands for the next 4 years.

Posted by Angstrom 2025-03-19 10:27|| 2025-03-19 10:27|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't see Trump jumping up and reversing any of the things these judges keep saying he's supposed to reverse. Sure, his side makes their court hearings, but I'm not seeing any hurry to do what those clowns are asking him to do.

Posted by Crusader 2025-03-19 10:51|| 2025-03-19 10:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Who is doing the spreadsheet of orders, rulings, appeals, judgements, SCOTUS hearings, etc.?

Posted by Bobby 2025-03-19 11:09|| 2025-03-19 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I keep remembering Senator John Kennedy saying he did not know some of the things USAID was doing. If the allocations of funds were not specifically spelled out by Congress, it seems to me that Trump should have some leeway.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-03-19 12:27|| 2025-03-19 12:27|| Front Page Top

#15 I dont recall if I said this here, but the Constitution is fairly clear with things, and one thing is very clear and that is the Constitution does not give judges any enforcement mechanism because it is not their role, and was never envisioned to be their role. Separations of Power.

Posted by mossomo 2025-03-19 13:27|| 2025-03-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

#16

Posted by DarthVader 2025-03-19 14:50|| 2025-03-19 14:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Trump is flooding the zone with action. An interesting effect of his plan is that the leftists are using every corrupt judge in their stable for countermeasures. I don’t think the have many in reserve. They are all identified.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-19 14:55|| 2025-03-19 14:55|| Front Page Top

#18 The Founders Provided Remedies for a Runaway Judiciary

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-19 16:18|| 2025-03-19 16:18|| Front Page Top

#19 #17 - good point, and they're providing Op Infor for any future advancement

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-19 18:42|| 2025-03-19 18:42|| Front Page Top

#20 This is going to be dragged out to midterms. The Donks will have to run defending fraud, waste, graft, and abuse. The 20 percent that are integrated to the legacy media won't know, but everyone else will.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-19 18:58|| 2025-03-19 18:58|| Front Page Top

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